EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE BOSTON, September 14, 2004 - QNX Software Systems today announced a series of value-added embedded software products that feature royalty-free licensing as standard components. These innovative new product offerings will help QNX customers lower the cost and development time needed to bring embedded devices to market and make it far easier to customize and debug their designs.

The new offerings, packaged as highly integrated Technology Development Kits (TDKs), combine binaries, utilities, tools, and in most cases source code, for value-added QNX software components that provide advanced functionality not supported by conventional RTOSs. Each TDK is packaged as a distinct module, so customers can choose one or many, depending on the features needed in their embedded design.

Designed for use with the QNX® Momentics® development suite Professional Edition, the TDKs are also optimized to take advantage of key features of the QNX Neutrino® RTOS. Each TDK also includes a royalty-free license to distribute specific components for use in OEM devices.

QNX Flash File System and Embedding TDK - Provides read/write persistent storage that is resilient to power failures and provides a longer predictable life span for flash parts. Includes NOR and NAND flash file systems, a media-independent embedded transactional file system (ETFS), and an on-the-fly decompression utility.

QNX Web Browser TDK - Allows developers to customize the QNX Voyager(TM) 2 embedded browser user interface for devices that have limited memory and CPU resources, or where the customer needs to brand their browser interface with a unique look-and-feel.

QNX Multimedia TDK - Provides reusable media format and content handlers with built-in support for a number of standard multimedia formats, enabling customers to build their own media playback or recording applications.

QNX Symmetric Multiprocessing TDK - Allows developers to optimize performance and increase device scalability by running multiple applications and system services in parallel on SMP hardware. This TDK is available in binary form only.